Mathematics

Using Problem-based Learning Analytics to Investigate Individual and Collaborative Mathematics Learning in a Digital Environment Over Time

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Building on prior NSF-supported research, this four-year project explores two hypotheses about improving middle grade students’ mathematical understanding through learning analytics in a digital, collaborative, problem-based curriculum: students’ individual and collaborative engagement and learning improve when they are given meaningful analytics about their developing ideas; using digital mathematics notebooks strengthens the connection between individual and collaborative mathematics engagement and learning throughout a full year of seventh-grade instruction.

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Enhancing the Teacher-Curriculum Relationship in Problem-based Mathematics Classrooms by Connecting Teacher and Student Digital Collaborative Environments

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The project creates a digital space for middle school math teachers to collaborate, using problem-based curriculum materials shared with students. It enables teachers to plan, teach, and reflect on student learning together, even across different buildings. The platform includes classroom artifacts, teacher-created resources, and curriculum materials. The project explores how teachers use resources, collaborate, and support one another, aiming to enhance mathematics teaching and learning through digital tools.

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Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)

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We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the factors that facilitate or impede the development of the capacity for enacting rigorous forms of mathematics teaching and learning.

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Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)

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We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the factors that facilitate or impede the development of the capacity for enacting rigorous forms of mathematics teaching and learning.

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Exploring the Landscape of Rural Mathematics Education (Collaborative Research)

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We proposed to generate an understanding of rural mathematics education and conditions impacting rural mathematics education in middle schools across the US, with the goal of understanding the gap between current practices and practices associated with economically competitive regions. We hope to understand the current landscape of mathematics education in rural areas and to understand the factors that facilitate or impede the development of the capacity for enacting rigorous forms of mathematics teaching and learning.

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Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)

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In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified through log data, and we examine how these patterns are associated with teacher characteristics (i.e., years in teaching mathematics and feelings about teaching mathematics).

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Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)

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In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified through log data, and we examine how these patterns are associated with teacher characteristics (i.e., years in teaching mathematics and feelings about teaching mathematics).

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Examining Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Behaviors and Learning with an Online Professional Development Platform (Collaborative Research)

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In this project, we explore different ways elementary school teachers participate in online learning on the Everyday Mathematics Virtual Learning Community (VLC), a platform that includes videos, discussions, and other resources for mathematics teaching. Using this large-scale VLC for elementary teachers, we address which common patterns of teacher online behavior sequences can be identified through log data, and we examine how these patterns are associated with teacher characteristics (i.e., years in teaching mathematics and feelings about teaching mathematics).

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CAREER: Second Chance STEM: Uncovering School Policies Structuring Access to and Engagement in High School STEM Credit Recovery

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Online STEM credit courses have become attractive to school leaders as a way to support students who fail STEM courses in face-to-face school year settings. However, there is little research about the processes involved in how schools make decisions regarding student credit recovery. This study is engaged in data collection in high schools in a diverse county including credit recovery classroom observations, interviews, and administrative data to measure and evaluate policies around credit recovery.

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Supporting Rural STEM Middle School Teachers and Career Counselors in the Development of Effective STEM Content and Career Development Experiences

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This project provides rural middle school teachers and career counselors professional development, and the support needed to collaborate with each other and local community assets in designing, integrating, and implementing effective STEM content and career development activities. School teams co-develop project-based learning units that incorporate a place-based education perspective involving STEM assets, careers, and stakeholders from the local communities for middle school rural youth that intentionally infuse STEM careers in their area with STEM content.

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